Car-door hanger.



WILLIAM T. GIIBERSON, OF TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY.

CAR-:000E HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atenteoi Bee. 17, 1918.

Application led April 11, 1916, Serial No. 90,420.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. GrBEnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'Ioms River, in the county of Ocean and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Door Hangers, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to door hangers, and more particularly to door hangers for freight car doors, though it is applicable to doors for stables and the like or other places where asliding door is desirable.

The object of the invention is to provide a door hanger which will allow the door always to operate freely and without buckling or sticking as is so common with door hangers now in use. A further object of the invention is to provide a door hanger which is simple in construction, easy of operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

The invention consists in a door hanger comprising a stationary guide provided with rollers, a door supporting member adapted to overhang and travel upon said guide by contact with said rollers, and a guard for these parts, all as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated:

Figure 1 is a partial side elevation of a freight car showing a door of the usual type provided with the hanger of this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial sectional elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line A-B of Fig. 2.

1 is the side of a car to which is suitably fixed the stationary guide 2 as by a series of bolts and nuts 3 and 4, the bolts f1 being provided with spacing washers 5 for the purpose of preventing distortion of the side 6 which is odset from the attaching iiange 61 of the guide. The guide is constructed of a single strip of metal and is of substantially inverted U shape having straight vertical sides 6 and 7 and supported in bearings in its sides 6 and 7 are pintles 8 on which are mounted rollers 9, suitable openings 10 being provided in the top of the guide 2 to permit their projection therethrough. Any number of rollers may be used, the number depending upon the width and weight of the door. In the side 7 is a series of openings 11 through which a screw driver may be inserted for holding the bolts 4 while their complementary nuts are being applied.

Ihe door supporting member 12 has a top surface 13 which rests and travels upon the rollers 9, and a depending guide flange 14: of suhcient depth to overlap the side 6 of the guide member, and which, in conjunction with the door attaching plate 15, prevents any lateral movement of the door by coaction with the sides 6 and 7 of the stationary guide. The door 16 is suitably attached to the plate 15 by bolts and nuts 17 or otherwise.

The bottom edge of the door 16 is provided with a strip 18 having a channel 19 with which a guide 20 applied to the car body coacts to guide the bottom of the door and keep it from swinging.

In order to prevent dust, dirt, snow, ice, etc., from interfering with the proper operation of the hanger, a guard 21 is provided which effectively shields the operating parts.

The usual stops 22 and 23 are provided to limit the sliding movement of the door.

The guides, guard, channeled strip and door supporting member are made preferably of sheet metal, but they may be otherwise constructed, if desired.

Although I have herein described and shown the invention as applied to a freight car door, it is not my intention to limit it to such use, as it is obvious that, as above stated, it may be used in any place where a sliding door is desired.

Various changes in details of construction and arrangement of parts are within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A door hanger, comprising a stationary guide member, constructed of a single piece of metal and having an inverted U-shaped portion with a top and straight vertical sides and an offset attaching fiange projecting from one of its sides, and said top having a series of openings therethrough, a series of rollers journaled in the sides of said guide and projecting through said openings, bolts passing through said otlset iange and the inner side of the guide member for securing the guide in place, and spacing washers interposed between the inner side of the guide member and the door frame, the outer side of the guide member having a series oi openings therethrough in alinement with the fastening' boits passing through the inner side of the guide member to permit the insertion of i tool Jfor engaging` and holding the fastening bolts when being seemed in piace, and a doei supporting member oompiising ay front door-attaching portion, top portion ove:-v hanging said guide niembei' and adapted "so engage enti tim/'ei upon the iolieis therein,

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meme@ and a depending iiange portion overlapping the inner eide of said guide member to pievVent interni disgiacement of the door.

"in testimony whereof I aiix my signature in the presence oi two Witnesses.

'WLLAM T. GBERSN.

Witnesses: z

LEOPOLD WissMAoH JOHN EARRELL aessing 'the ommissioner of Entente, 

